Knot for tying Fireline

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A friend and I were out this last sunday on his boat along the point. We managed to get one coho. The trouble we had was, he uses fireline on his dipsey diver rods. He use a knot some one told him to use but we still lost two divers because the knots came undone. Not sure what the knot was called, what does everyone else used for tying superline to swivels and lures?

thanks

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[Ralph Wiggum]

I did a bit of unofficial testing this spring, and by far the best knot that I've tried (for Power Pro, at least) is the palomar. It beat everything I threw at it. The Uni knot worked okay, but the palomar was hands-down the best.

[MJCatfish]

I've had good success with the Palomar Knot. It's easy to tie and dependable. It can be a little difficult tying it with very small diameter line, but I suppose that holds true for any knot. Check out the Power Pro HSOforum for other knots.

MJ

MJ

[DEADhead]

Palomar or a uni-knot will work well.

[PierBridge]

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I did a bit of unofficial testing this spring, and by far the best knot that I've tried (for Power Pro, at least) is the palomar. It beat everything I threw at it. The Uni know worked okay, but the palomar was hands-down the best.

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Ryan was it a regular Palomar or were you having better results with a double loop Palomar?

[Ralph Wiggum]

I got good results with both. From what I did, it didn't seem to matter too much, and the regular is easy to cinch up. Sometimes the regular would break first, other times, the doubled one would. Also, note that I used a vise-grips on the tag end to tighten the knots.

[PierBridge]

Thanks......got to run and get some bullies now....

[Ralph Wiggum]

I'm hitting my "secret spot" after work to haul in some of those pests.

[Swimmer]

single palomar, NOT uni